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This undated photo provided by Deatrie Young shows Jazmin Valentine and her baby at a supermarket. Valentine filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022, alleging that nurses and staff at the Washington County jail in Maryland ignored her screams and plea for help as she gave birth to her daughter there in July 2021. (Deatrie Young via AP)

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Lawsuit says woman gave birth alone on Maryland jail floor
By COLLEEN SLEVIN - Associated Press
Tue,09/27/22-4:08PM , 324 Reads
A woman who said she was left to give birth to her baby alone on the dirty, concrete floor of her jail cell in Maryland filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday alleging that jail nurses ignored her screams and pleas for help for six hours.
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A demonstrator carries an image of Elijah McClain during a rally and march in Aurora, Colo., June 27, 2020. A Colorado judge on Friday, Sept. 16, 2022 responded to a request by a coalition of news organizations to release an amended autopsy report for Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died after a 2019 encounter with police, by ruling the report be made public only after new information it contains is redacted. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)

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Amended autopsy: Black man died due to sedative, restraint
By COLLEEN SLEVIN - Associated Press
Fri,09/23/22-1:16PM , 252 Reads
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A Black man died after a police encounter in a Denver suburb in 2019 because he was injected with a powerful sedative after being forcibly restrained, according to an amended autopsy report publicly released Friday.
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Robert Dear talks to Judge Gilbert Martinez during a court appearance in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Dec. 9, 2015. A federal judge ruled Monday, Sept. 19, 2022, that Dear, a mentally ill man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services, can be forcibly medicated to try to make him competent to stand trial. The prosecution of Dear has stalled because he has been repeatedly found mentally incompetent since his arrest and has refused to take anti-psychotic medication for delusional disorder. (Andy Cross/The Denver Post via AP, File)

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Judge says alleged clinic shooter can be forcibly medicated
By COLLEEN SLEVIN - Associated Press
Mon,09/19/22-5:12PM , 178 Reads
DENVER (AP) — A mentally ill man charged with killing three people at a Colorado Planned Parenthood clinic in 2015 because it offered abortion services can be forcibly medicated to try to make him competent to stand trial, a federal judge ruled Monday.
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Chief Justice John Roberts sits during a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. Roberts is set to make his first public appearance since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, speaking Friday night, Sept. 9, 2022, at a judicial conference in Colorado.(Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP, Pool, File)

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Chief Justice John Roberts defends legitimacy of court
By COLLEEN SLEVIN - Associated Press
Sat,09/10/22-12:45AM , 248 Reads
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — Chief Justice John Roberts on Friday defended the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret the Constitution, saying its role should not be called into question just because people disagree with its decisions.
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